LiveSuit

LiveSuit is developed by Allwinner as a installation application for Microsoft Windows to flash the NAND for Allwinner chips.

Download

• Windows version LiveSuit

Flash

To flash A10 devices with LiveSuit, first you need to let the device go to FEL mode.

Execute LiveSuit.exe and click SelectImg button to select the LiveSuit images you have. Connect your devices to PC with a USB cable. If Windows ask you to install driver, select the driver in the LiveSuit program UsbDriver folder.

Linux

Download

mkdir cubie; cd cubie
git clone https://github.com/matson-hall/allwinner-pack-tools.git
cd allwinner-pack-tools
git checkout cubieboard
cp tools/Livesuit-linux.zip <destination>
cd <destination>
unzip Livesuit-linux.zip
cd LiveSuit_For_Linux64
chmod +x Livesuit.run
./Livesuit.run

Unsupported distribution notes

As expected, the LiveSuit.run is a 60 lines shellscript followed by an tar.bz2 archive. You can extract it manually as such:

tail -n +60 LiveSuit.run > LiveSuite.tar.bz2

In the tarball there's 2 things, the livesuite itself and a special USB driver in the form of either an RPM or a DEB package. rpmunpack or dpkg -x somepackage.deb can be used to extract the package.

Next, change into the extracted source to usr/src/awdev-0.1 and type make. If there are errors, (I had some) they need to be fixed.

For one, err() has finally died! (according to [gkh on g+].).

For it is fixed upstream somewhere over on [github].

See Also

• LiveSuit images